Region
France › Champagne › Côte des Blancs › Champagne AOC
Type
white · traditional · sparkling · extra-brut
Grapes
Chardonnay
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Dosage
2 g/L
Disgorged
2023-12
Tasting Notes(1)
4.1
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The vintage wine stays in home waters. It comes mainly from grand cru lieux-dits in the Côte des Blancs: Les Avats, Les Maladries du Nord and Les Chapelles in Avize, Les Noyerots and Les Rumigny in Oger, and Les Zalieux, Le Tilleul and Les Hautes Mottes in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger. Several of them also feed the village wines of Franck Bonville, the family house Olivier runs.
The house is frank about the year. A warm, early spring was hit by severe frosts on 19 and 20 April, which cut yields hard. July and August were very wet, and picking in the Côte des Blancs began on 1 September.
The wine was made in stainless steel and went through malolactic. For its second fermentation it was closed under cork rather than a crown cap.
Every odyssey, the house says, comes with its challenges, and 2017 was one of them.
